Horror Movies

What are you guys watching this October? Usually, I watch I ton of horror movies during October leading up to Halloween. I like a good mix of stuff I've never seen before and some old favorites. Netflix has some decent stuff this year. There are a lot of old silent films, Universal monster movies, and some foreign horror. Every once in a while I'll run across a really bad movie that ends up being so bad it's good.

Movies I own on Blu-ray that I plan on watching:

Friday the 13th Parts I-III
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Orphanage
Psycho
Rob Zombie's Halloween
28 Days Later
The Descent
The Ruins
Paranormal Activity

I'll wing the rest of it but I absolutely plan on watching Trick 'r Treat on Halloween night!

I'd add Snyder's Dawn of the Dead from 2004, especially the Special Feature with Richard Biggs (Dr Franklin from Babylon 5), in one of his Final Roles, playing a Newscaster. It's clips of him all through the building up of the chaos, extremely spine chilling. It's called "Special Report: Zombie Invasion")

Just pulled it out to make my own pile

Also, the 30 Days of Night Web Series are pretty good. I got all the pieces off Comcast On Demand and burned a DVD of both Series

Oh, and if you haven't seen it, Hitchcock's Rope is really chilling, and has an innovative Filming Technique, where it looks like it's all shot, non-stop, 1 reel, no skipping from one room into the next, unless the camera walks there, I believe.

The Ruins is awesome too, may pull that one out as well.

And of course, there'll be some Romero Zombie Movies (Maybe all of them except Land of the Dead, unless we replaced it?)

It would be one of those if I do. As you can see I'm not much of a horror fan at all. If I like a horror movie enough to want to own it, it's probably not a conventional horror movie but something of a hybrid with other genres.

I usually watch lots of Universal horror around this time. The monsters are great, and I also love movies like The Dark Old House (maybe my favorite horror comedy) and The Black Cat (Lugosi and Karloff are both excellent in this).

I usually watch a lot of newer stuff too, like the Romero films and Evil Dead trilogy, Re-animator etc., but I'm not really in the mood for all those right now. Think I'll just keep to the classics this year.

The only movie that's really creeped me out was Carpenter's Prince of Darkenss... It had some kinda cool sci-fi elements to it and didn't spend a lot of time with "jump at you for the kill" cheap scares (the real exception being Alice Cooper's cool turn as a homeless zombie)...

I'll probably catch a few vids on the box with whatever's playing on Sy-Fy or AMC...

Of course, the real wait is almost over.. Walking Dead premeirs in a couple of weeks!